From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263353AbTEVWdo (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2003 18:33:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263354AbTEVWdo (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2003 18:33:44 -0400 Received: from granite.he.net ([216.218.226.66]:785 "EHLO granite.he.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263353AbTEVWdm (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2003 18:33:42 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 15:48:40 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Dave Jones , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI changes for 2.5.69 Message-ID: <20030522224840.GA7244@kroah.com> References: <20030522220251.GA6814@kroah.com> <10536411591193@kroah.com> <20030522223616.GA5830@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030522223616.GA5830@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 11:36:16PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 03:05:59PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > One may write new PCI device IDs into the new_id file: > > echo "8086 1229" > new_id > > > > which will cause a new device ID (sysfs name 0) to be added to the driver. > > Why not call the probe routine at this point ? > This would do away with the need for the probe_it file. > The only downside I can see is that if we have a script > echoing lots of device id updates, we're going to lots of > additional (-ENODEV) probes. Keep reading through the patches :) greg k-h